TechCrunch discusses how FastCompany has rebranded itself as a business social network. Rand and I are especially pleased to see FastCompany's positive press because they are one of SEOmoz's clients and he and I worked on their wireframe and tested their site before its relaunch.

Will Critchlow and gang put together a mobile search quiz over at Distilled. Cast your vote on who you think is most likely to win the mobile search race.

Not only is Google displaying ads for MySpace spam software (link removed as domain was lost), it's also allowing them to use Google Checkout. For shame, Google. For shame. As penance, I sentence you to slap the monkey in the banner ad no fewer than 30 times.

The Scientific American asks if all companies have to be evil and cites Google as an example of a corporation trying to do good. I read bits of the article but didn't get through the whole thing because (and this could just be me) when I open up an article online and see an endless sea of blocks of text, my eyes glaze over and I go into "skim" mode. How sad. The Internet has ruined my reading ability.

How Does a Company Hire the Right SEO? Milan asks the community how to find the right candidate that you can trust with your website. The responses are encouraging and offer a lot of advice and insight.

MozLovin in Time for Valentine's Day. SEO Columbus came up with a totally scientific formula to determine one's "MozLove" Score. Crash is the only member to have a 100% MozLov score. What a feat!

Putting the Tipping Point to Work. Vingold talks about Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point, and how you can make the book's message work for you and your business.

Esteban Panzera's 11 Tips for Appearing at Google Definitions is a very handy step by step on how to get your website to appear as a result for a "define: " search at Google; so handy, in fact, that I promoted his post to the main blog. Well done, Esteban! As for the rest of you, be sure to follow these tips and in no time you can rank for terms like this!

Nakul Goyal is a happily employed individual who "lives and breathes" SEO. Good for him!

About rebecca —
Rebecca Kelley is the content marketing manager for Intego, a Mac software company. She also guest-blogs/freelances at various places and runs a couple hobby blogs for shits and giggles.

That Scientific American article is a dull read though agrivating. The author clearly just ate up Google's PR wothout doing any real research into Google using anti-competitive tactics, leveraging its near-monopoly, ripping off millions of people and businesses for their copyright and trademarks, etc.

The obligatory China disaster was mentioned and even that was polished over.

It's a fluff peace. No journalism and less than what I would expect from that publication.